Search Results: Authors starting with T from ZH BOOKS

Petersham, Australia: Geo. Nye, 1940. Good. First edition, n. d. (ca 1940); stapled, pictorial wraps; 8 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [15]; mild spotting to wraps; small nicks to corners; creases to lower corner of back wrap; in good or better condition.According to the booklet's foreword, ti was compiled by a soldier of the A.I.F. (Australian Imperial Force), returning from the First World War, and the purchase of each copy was to assist an "Unemployed or Disabled Digger." It contained anecdotes and funny memories, which "the Anzacs have a super-abundance of...and with them the sense of humour is a gift."

Jordanville, NY: Sviato - Troitskii Monastyr, 1960. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 9; pp. 334; textured brown wraps printed in black and illustrated with the Russian Imperial Crest; a few faint spots to wraps; some small rubbed spots along spine and corners; minor age-toning and discoloration to endpapers; illustrated with photographs; very good.The book was published in commemoration of Nikolai Dmitrievich Talberg's (1886-1967) 50th anniversary of his graduating The Imperial College of Law with a gold medal in 1907. He served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs until the Revolution after which he joined Nikolai Evgenievich Markov's secret Monarchist organization - The Supreme Monarchist Council. He emigrated to Berlin in 1920 where he continued working closely with Markov's organization. While in Germany, he also became involved with the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia and when he eventually moved to the US he accepted a teaching position at Holy Trinity Seminary in… Read More

Filiadelfiia (Philadelphia): Kyiv, 1952. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 1/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [4], 7-21, [2]; pictorial, card stock wraps; gray dust jacket, printed in blue; illustrated with one drawing, identical to that on the front wrap - both designed by Iakiv Hnizdovskyi; book with very light wear to corners and tips of spine; DJ with small nicks at folds and a bit of sun-fading to margins; in very good condition.Ostap Tarnavskyi (1917 - 1992) was a Ukrainian-American poet, literary critic, translator, and librarian. His career in literature began early, during the interwar period, with some of his poems being published in several authoritative journals and newspapers in Ukraine. After escaping, first to Germany, then to the US in 1949, he joined the Ukrainian-American Relief Committee of Philadelphia, eventually becoming its Executive Director, and was head of department at the library of City College of Philadelphia. He published memoirs and poems, including the current poetry… Read More

Detroit: Self-published, 1966. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition; staple-bound 6" x 9"; pp. [4], 1-109 including text to last page; original red stapled wraps; slight fading to upper margin of front cover and spine; very good or better. The autobiography of a Michigan salesman with Irish roots. A look into local history and characters.

Magadan: Kordis, 1999. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition; 8vo; pp. [1], 4-162; original pictorial wraps; a few faint blue spots to spine and minor dust-dulling to margins of back cover, else fine. 1 of only 500 copies ever printed. Signed/inscribed by Tchaikovsky to Prof. Anatoly Liberman, a prominent academician and author from the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. The book follows the music and literary art of Okudzhava during the last 15 years of his life and, more specifically, the challenges of translating his poetry into other languages, while keeping the flow and beauty of the original Russian.

Berlin: Mysl', 1921. Second printing of the first and only edition (first printing - 6000 copies, second printing - 4ooo copies); 3 1/2 x 5 3/4; pp. [2], 5-63 including text to last page; original printed wraps; some loss of paper to spine, else mostly clean and well-preserved; very good.Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya (pseudonym Teffi)was one of Russia's most prominent humorist writers at the beginning of the 20th century. She contributed numerous stories to 'The New Life' (the first Bolshevik journal), 'Russkoye Slovo' journal, and 'Satirikon' magazine working closely with Zinaida Gippius and Maxim Gorky. Forced to leave Russia after the October Revolution she traveled to Istanbul before settling in Paris. Her current book, "Istanbul and the Sun," (part of 'Kniga dlia Vsiekh' series) is her interpretation of exotic Istanbul of the 1920s through the eyes of a stranger.

Moskva: Detskaia Literatura, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition in this format; 5 3/4" x 8"; pp. [2], 3-143, [1]; original pictorial boards; cloth spine; some rubbing mostly to lower edge of covers; illustrated from original drawings by Thackeray; very good or better. A beautiful children's edition of William Thackeray's 'The Rose and the Ring,' in which he subtly criticizes the monarchy and the twisted views of beauty of the nobility.

Parizh: Sintaksis, 1989. Soft cover. First edition; 5 ¾†x 8 ¼†; pp. [4], 7-95, [5] including text to last page; original heavy textured b & w wraps; very minor wear; fine condition.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. Hardcover. Good. A delightful little book - one of the very first editions in which "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "Maud" were ever published in a book form. Condition: Good - original blind-stamped dark blue covers, gilt title and decorations to spine; all page edges gilt; fading and a few spots to covers; wear along edges, corners and head and tail of spine; faint penciled-in name and date to first free page; foxing only to portrait frontis; pages clean.

James R. Osgood, Boston, 1875. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. This first American edition of Tennyson's influential work bears the bookplate and signature of Robert Clarence Pruyn, who was a famous American inventor, banker, businessman, and politician. Among other things, he established the Santanoni Preserve in the Adirondack Mountains, which is today a state park and National Historic Landmark. Book Condition: Good - original green boards with gilt decorations and title; head and tail of spine worn; some rubbing to corners, otherwise covers mostly clean with a few spots to back cover; pages clean.

Sofia: Chipev, T. F., 1940. Hardcover. First edition; 5 x 7 1/4; pp. 487; rebound in textured blue cloth over boards with original wraps bound-in; gilt title to spine; bookplate of Carleton T. Hodge, Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at Indiana University from 1964-1983, to front cover verso; few small spots to upper margin of front wrap and faint age-toning to pages, else minor wear - near fine condition.'New Bulgarian Grammar' was arguably Aleksandur Teodorov-Balan's (1859-1959) most ambitious work. A linguist, historian and bibliographer - he was the first Rector of Sofia University, Secretary of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and one of the founders of the Tourist Movement in Bulgaria. He was unsurpassed in his contributing to enrichment and understanding of the Bulgarian language.

Moscow: Pravda, 1947. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 32; stapled printed wraps; age-toning to margins; a few sentences on last page underlined in pencil; small closed cuts to head and tail of spine; overall very good or better.Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Rasprostraneniiu Politicheskikh i Nauchnykh Znanii (The All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge) replaced the League of Militant Atheists, also called The Union of the Godless, in 1947. The League had been formed in 1925, by the Communist Party, as an atheistic and anti-religious organization of common workers and intelligentsia. In 1947 the Society commenced publishing journals and propaganda materials and it sponsored lectures, demonstrations and parades. Dedicated to eradicating religious beliefs and promoting science and knowledge, the public lectures were diligently recorded and printed (example of which is the current one) in a pamphlet form occasionally with numerous illustrations. The… Read More

Moskva: Partizdat, 1934. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 3-255, [1]; beige wraps, printed in gray; illustrated with several maps, including two large, fold-out, color ones; scattered spots of foxing; small cuts to tips of spine; the fold-out maps with closed splits to bottom edge, with no loss; in good to very good condition.Anatolii Kantorovich (1896 - 1937), writing under the pseudonyms Ajax and N. Terentev, was an orientalist and historian of the Far East. He worked for the Comissariat of Foreign Affairs in China and wrote numerous articles and several books on Soviet-Chinese relations, on Russo-Japanese trade, etc. His current work focused on the history of military conflicts in Manchria, the position of the US and the League of Nations, the deepening crisis in Japan, and so on.

New York, NY: Rausen Publishers & Distributors, 1966. Softcover. First edition; 4 1/4 x 6; pp. 158; beige wraps printed in black; small nick to head of spine; crease line to upper corner of front wrap and first several pages; portrait frontis; overall very good.Andrei Sinyavsky (1925 – 1997), often writing under the pseudonym Abram Terz, was a Russian emigre writer, political prisoner, and Professor at the Sorbonne. Angering the government with his descriptions of the reality of life in Soviet Russia, Terts was arrested in 1965, tried in the infamous Sinyavsky-Daniel show trial (the first Soviet show trial to have writers openly convicted solely for their literary work), and sentenced to seven years on charges of "anti-Soviet activity." Released in 1971, he immigrated to Paris where he continued writing until his death. "Thought Unaware" is a collection of thoughts and aphorisms.

Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1858. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 5 3/4 x 3 1/2; pp. [3], iv-viii, [1], 10-248, [6]; embossed, blue cloth over boards; gilt vignette to front board; gilt title and decorations to spine; small rubbed spots to corners; light overall fading and wear to cloth; faint, penciled-in signature and personal stamp of previous owner to ffep (Vice President of the Chelmsford Foundry Co. in North Chelmsford, Mass. Elijah Damon Bearce); very good condition.Written by William Simonds (1822 - 1859), best known for his "Aimwell Stories," as well as several works on morals and manners, the little book of beatiful poetry was intended as a consolation for parents, who had lost a child.

Ludington, MI: The Carrom Company, 1919. First Edition. Very good. First edition presumed, n. d. (ca 1919); 6 x 3 1/2; pp. 1-40; pictorial, off-white wraps; illustrated with drawings and several photographic images; mild age-toning and wear, with a few very minor spots to wraps; very good condition.The Ludington Novelty Company was founded in 1889 by Sunday School teacher Henry L. Haskell. He invented a game - Carroms - with a patented playing board, each one of which was manufactured by hand and was sold before another one was started. In 1902, the Ludington Novelty was merged with another game-manufacturing company with patented playing boards - Illinois-based Archarena Company - and in 1912, the Carrom-Archarena Company became the Carrom Company. The current booklet explained the rules for the various games played on Carrom boards, including Spinette, Ten-Pin Top Game, Crokinola, Travelling Carroms, and many more. It also supplied a price list for extra parts for combination game boards, as… Read More

S. l. (Columbus, Indiana): The Cerealine Mfg. Co., 1888. Very good. Early printing, n. d. (late 1880s); oblong 5 3/4 x 8 1/2; pp. [16]; stapled pictorial wraps; illustrated with monochrome drawings (presumably after original engravings by H. F. Farny); small, closed cuts to tips of spine, else minor wear; in very good condition.Typical of cereal manufacturers' advertisements of the 19th century, the return to nature with healthy food meant "a return for white people to an earlier existence, in which 'natural peoples' did the work of procuring food." Thus, the companies often connected their products with Native Americans. The Cerealine Company excelled at it, including publishing the current booklet, which was to be sent to their customers and which claimed to be the legend of "Hiawatha's Fasting." Each page, along with touting the benefits of Cerealine Flakes, also included short passages from Longfellow's "Hiawatha." Though this printing… Read More

Honolulu, Hawaii: Paradise of the Pacific, Ltd., 1945. Very good. Second edition (first published in 1941); 9 1/4 x 6 1/4; pp. [12], 9-86, [54]; light-brown leatherette over boards, printed with Chinese characters in dark-brown; illustrated with frontis plate, several photographs, and numerous advertisements; small signature of previous owner to ffep; a bit of wear to corners and tips of spine; in very good condition.A great community cook book, it was prepared by the Chinese Women's Club of the International Institute to raise funds for national and world support of the Y.W.C.A. In addition to the variety of authentic Cantonese recipes for soups, seafood, noodles, dumplings, etc., it also included a section on table etiquette (no used chopsticks on the table cloth; no young people are served, until the elder persons have received their servings; no one, but the honor guest is seated facing the door; etc.). The last chapter contained a large table of ingredients, identified by their Chinese… Read More

London: The DeVilbiss Mfg. Co., 1913. Very good. Brochure, n. d. (ca 1913); Half-fold then Double-parallel fold, 8 pannels, 9 1/2 x 7 unfolded; cream stock, illustrated with monochrome images on orange background; a few small cuts to edges of folds; in very good condition.Dr. Allen DeVilbiss (1840 - 1917) was an inventor and Toledo's first ear, nose, and throat specialist. While treating patients in the rural communities around the city, the doctor was dissatisfied with the lack of a device for easy application of medicines to people's throats and noses. In 1888, he developed an atomizer with a hollow rubber ball, a metal jar, and a small tube for the quick dispersal and coating of the throats with drugs. His invention was so successful that by 1890, he retired from his medical practice and founded the DeVilbiss Manufacturing Company. He would soon branch into manufacturing perfume atomizers (perfumizers), and the first practical, compressed-air, paint spray guns for the automotive… Read More

New York: The Fleischmann Distilling Corporation, 1955. Very good. Mid-20th-century edition, n. d. (ca 1955); 6 x 3 1/2; stapled pictorial wraps; lithographed illustrations, designed by artist Mildred Sophie Porter; top edge of wraps a bit unevenly trimmed (as published [?]); a slight crease to bottom corner of front wrap, else minor wear; in very good or better condition.A delightful cocktail recipe book by the renowned distillery, founded in Cincinnati in 1868.